Re: Is there any reason for the evolution to be one way


"Shaktyai" <Fabrice.Allais@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mar 27, 7:01 am, "Perplexed in Peoria"
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"Shaktyai" <Fabrice.All...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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lmucho snippage]

I agree with you, biology is far too complex to be left
alone in
biologists hands. Crick and Watston did know about
that....
Todays is the day of multidisciplanry team and
methodology. And by the
way I did start my studies with biology but felt it was
too
approximative to be a good scientific field of research.

IMO, the program you are proposing is futile. There are far
too numerous factors involved in the simplest evolutionary
step to treat by such math methods--I believe such analyses
in bio are akin to attempting to solve the open-ended many
body problem in physics. If one is looking for predictions,
one will always hafta deal with the limitations of chaos
thy. and other such obstacles.

And ultimately, there's the biggest limitation of all,
namely, the fact of incomplete knowledge of what all the
pertinent factors in the general case are to begin with! I
doubt there's an quick and easy math road to bio. outside of
the primary, traditional reductionist/holistic mix, i.e.,
the slow, meticulous experimental one.
.....tonyC


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